Mark 5:21

Mark 5:21 tou/ VIhsou/ @evn tw|/ ploi,w|# {C}

Although a minority of the Committee regarded the phrase evn tw|/ ploi,w| as an early scribal insertion, added before tou/ VIhsou/ in W and after tou/ VIhsou/ in a great number of witnesses (including a A (B) C L D ¦¹³ 33 1079 1241 al), the majority preferred the reading witnessed by the Alexandrian and other text-types, and explained the absence of the phrase as either accidental or by assimilation to the parallel in Luke ( Luke 8:40). The change of position of the phrase in W is due to the desire to achieve a better sequence. In view, however, of the conflict of transcriptional probabilities, it was thought best to enclose the words within square brackets.